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P. v. AVILA ( Part IX )

P. v. AVILA ( Part IX )
06:14:2006

P. v. AVILA









Filed 5/15/06




IN THE SUPREME COURT OF CALIFORNIA





THE PEOPLE, )


)


Plaintiff and Respondent, )


) S045982


v. )


)


JOHNNY AVILA, JR., )


) Fresno County


Defendant and Appellant. ) Super. Ct. No. 452067-2


___________ )


Story Continued from Part VIII …………


Evidence Code section 1101, subdivision (a), generally prohibits the admission of evidence of a person's character or a trait of his or her character when offered to prove his or her conduct on a specified occasion. Section 1101, subdivision (b), however, provides that evidence of a person's prior criminal act is admissible â€





Description Prospective jurors in a capital case may be discharged for cause based solely on answers to written questionnaire if it is clear that they are unwilling to temporarily set aside own beliefs and follow the law. Trial court did not abuse discretion under Code of Civil Procedure Sec. 223 in setting time limit on counsel's voir dire of potential jurors individually or in the aggregate. When trial court determines that defendant has made a prima facie showing that a particular prospective juror has been challenged by prosecution because of bias, court need not ask the prosecutor to justify challenges to other prospective jurors of the same group for which the court has already denied a Batson/Wheeler mistrial motion. Prosecutor's use of peremptory challenges to eliminate four jurors who did not wholeheartedly support death penalty did not violate defendant's constitutional rights to due process, fundamentally fair trial by an impartial jury, or a reliable judgment.
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